RFC 825: Request for comments on Requests For Comments
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Document record
- Document ID
- RFC825
- Published
- November 1982
- Authors
- J. Postel
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 2
- Also known as
- —
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 5 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
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3 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.
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